| Carex enanderi Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex eurystachya Herm. | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose; culms longer than leaves, glabrous, with bladeless, brownish sheaths at base; leaves 1.5-2 mm wide; spikes 3-5, oblong, the lower long-pedun- cled, the apical with staminate flowers at base, the lateral pistillate; lowest bract foliaceous, lacking sheath, extending beyond inflorescence; scales ovate, obtuse or somewhat acute, purplish-black, with conspicuous green midvein; perigynia ovate, longer and broader than scales, nerved, sparsely ciliate in margin, with very short, slightly bidentate beak; stigmas 2(-3). |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.